Liza Girl
How popular is Liza?
#1,643 girl name in 2025
126 baby girls were named Liza in the US in 2025, making it the 1643rd most popular girl name.
Liza popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,643 for girls (▲ 153 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 126 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (0% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,685 in 2015, #1,728 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1973 (518 girls) |
| Highest rank | #338 in 1881 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Liza counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lisa family of names ranked #638 for girls in 2025 (#639 the year before), with 429 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Liza is most popular
Babies named Liza per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Tennessee: 0.2 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (34 girls)
- Alabama: 0.1 per 1,000 (8 girls)
Liza by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 223 | #338 |
| 1890s | 271 | #400 |
| 1900s | 225 | #600 |
| 1910s | 347 | #658 |
| 1920s | 306 | #1,188 |
| 1930s | 229 | #1,287 |
| 1940s | 299 | #1,373 |
| 1950s | 763 | #829 |
| 1960s | 2,694 | #508 |
| 1970s | 4,263 | #392 |
| 1980s | 3,082 | #460 |
| 1990s | 1,803 | #878 |
| 2000s | 1,245 | #1,256 |
| 2010s | 1,154 | #1,608 |
| 2020s | 737 | #1,524 |
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Questions
- Is Liza a boy or girl name?
- Liza is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Liza were girls.
- How popular is the name Liza?
- 126 baby girls were named Liza in the US in 2025, making it the 1643rd most popular girl name.
- When was Liza most popular?
- Liza peaked in 1973, when 518 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #338 in 1881.
- How many people are named Liza?
- 17,655 babies have been named Liza in the US since 1880. We estimate about 15,252 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 46.
- Where is Liza most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Liza was most common in Tennessee, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.